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Researchers Demonstrate First All-Metamaterial Optical Gas Sensor

August 30, 2019

Simple, low-power sensor is ideal for 'internet of things' and smart home devices

Fiber-Based Imaging Spectrometer Captures Record Amounts of Data

May 21, 2019

Compact device could one day be used aboard unmanned aircraft for farming and environmental applications

Researchers Use 3D Printer to Print Glass

April 22, 2019

Chalcogenide glass is a unique material used to make optical components that operate at mid-infrared wavelengths

New Technology Uses Lasers to Transmit Audible Messages to Specific People

January 24, 2019

Photoacoustic communication approach could send warning messages through the air without requiring a receiving device

Innovative Sensing Technique Could Improve Greenhouse Gas Analysis

October 11, 2018

Ghost imaging technique achieves sensitive detection of gases at fine resolution

Researchers Levitate Water Droplets to Improve Contaminant Detection

May 4, 2018

The technique could lead to on-site, real-time detection of heavy metals in water

DNA: The next Hot Material in Photonics?

October 3, 2017

Scientists fine-tune organic thin films with an eye toward biomedical devices

New Screen Coating Makes Reading in Sunlight a Lot Easier—the Secret? Moth Eyes

June 22, 2017

Nature-inspired film is scratch resistant, self-cleaning and could be used on flexible displays

New Microscope Chemically Identifies Micron-Sized Particles

January 5, 2017

Low-cost spectroscopy technique could allow detection of microscopic amounts of chemicals for applications in security, law e...

Pixel-Array Quantum Cascade Detector Paves the Way for Portable Thermal Imaging Devices

July 26, 2016

Research team from TU-Wien Center for Micro- and Nanostructures have developed a new 'cooler' sensing instrument thereby incr...

New Technique for Rapidly Killing Bacteria Using Tiny Gold Disks and Light

March 17, 2016

Research team from University of Houston find that the light-activated gold nanoparticles destroy potentially deadly bacteria...

How a Leftover Thanksgiving Dinner Gave Us LASIK Surgery

November 26, 2014

Somewhere between stuffing and pumpkin pie, the perfect test subject for the excimer laser was found